Bild, the best-selling German newspaper, is known for its strong support for Israel. So how did it become a pawn in an alleged conspiracy, orchestrated by Netanyahu's office, to turn public opinion against a Gaza cease-fire deal that would free the Israeli hostages held by Hamas?
On the morning of Sunday, September 8, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the weekly cabinet meeting, and prepared to make a short statement to the media before the start of the ministerial gathering. He looked at the cameras in the room, cleared his throat, and began speaking. "Over the weekend," he said, "the German newspaper Bild published an official document by Hamas, which exposed the organization's operational methods."
Netanyahu continued, describing the contents of the document, which he had supposedly learned about from the pro-Israel Bild, the biggest-selling newspaper in Europe. "Hamas wants to sow divisions among us, to use psychological warfare against the families of the hostages, to exert internal and external pressure on the Israeli government, to tear us apart from the inside and to continue the war until Israel is defeated."
Two-and-a-half months later, the document Netanyahu mentioned in that brief appearance, and how exactly it made its way to the pages of Bild, is at the center of a massive scandal that is rocking Netanyahu's office and causing unprecedented tensions between the prime minister and Israel's security and intelligence agencies.
The scandal shows Netanyahu's utter disregard for the lives of Israeli hostages currently held by Hamas, and his cynical use of them as political pawns. It also should raise questions about Bild, a paper known for its fierce loyalty to Israel – a loyalty that Netanyahu's media team, it seems, exploited in order to scuttle negotiations for the return of the hostages.
The details revolve around the conduct of Eli Feldstein, a Netanyahu spokesman who has been under investigation by Israel's Shin Bet security service and the police for almost a month now and will be indicted later this week.
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